Remote Alaska Villages Isolate Themselves Further in Effort to Shield Against Coronavirus: Alaskan communities that are accessible only by plane or snowmobile are cutting off the outside world in response to COVID-19 rather than risk elders' lives.

Most small Alaska villages can be reached only by plane or snowmobile. The travel and visitor bans go beyond travel restrictions imposed by the state of Alaska to further protect villages that are too small to have emergency rooms. [Extracted from the article]